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ARTICLE LXXXIX.

Each party is represented before the Tribunal by an agent, 3 who serves as intermediary between the Tribunal and the Gov4 ernment who appointed him.

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6 The proceedings are conducted exclusively in writing. Each 7 party, however, is entitled to ask that witnesses and experts 8. should be called. The Tribunal has, for its part, the right to demand oral explanations from the agents of the two parties, as well as from the experts and witnesses whose appearance in 11 Court it may consider useful.

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PART V.-Final Provisions.

ARTICLE XCI.

The present Convention, duly ratified, shall replace, as between the Contracting Powers, the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes of the 29th July, 1899.

ARTICLE XCII.

The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible.
The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague.

The first deposit of ratifications shall be recorded in a procèsverbal signed by the Representatives of the Powers which take 22 part therein and by the Netherland Minister for Foreign Affairs. The subsequent deposits of ratifications shall be made by means of a written notification, addressed to the Netherland 25 Government and accompanied by the instrument of ratification. 26 A duly certified copy of the procès-verbal relative to the first 27 deposit of ratifications, of the notifications mentioned in the 28 preceding paragraph, and of the instruments of ratification, 29 shall be immediately sent by the Netherland Government, 30 through the diplomatic channel, to the Powers invited to the 31 Second Peace Conference, as well as to those Powers which have 32 adhered to the Convention. In the cases contemplated in the 33 preceding paragraph, the said Government shall at the same 34 time inform the Powers of the date on which it received the notification.

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ARTICLE XCIII.

Non-Signatory Powers which have been invited to the Second

2 Peace Conference may adhere to the present Convention.

3 The Power which desires to adhere notifies its intention in

4 writing to the Netherland Government, forwarding to it the act

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of adhesion, which shall be deposited in the archives of the said Government.

7 This Government shall immediately forward to all the other 8 Powers invited to the Second Peace Conference a duly certified 9 copy of the notification as well as of the act of adhesion, men10 tioning the date on which it received the notification.

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12 The conditions on which the Powers which have not been 13 invited to the Second Peace Conference may adhere to the 14 present Convention shall form the subject of a subsequent 15 Agreement between the Contracting Powers.

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17 The present Convention shall take effect, in the case of the 18 Powers which were not a party to the first deposit of ratifica19 tions, sixty days after the date of the procès-verbal of this de20 posit, and, in the case of the Powers which ratify subsequently 21 or which adhere, sixty days after the notification of their rati22 fication or of their adhesion has been received by the Netherland 23 Government.

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ARTICLE XCVI.

In the event of one of the Contracting Parties wishing to 26 denounce the present Convention, the denunciation shall be 27 notified in writing to the Netherland Government, which shall 28 immediately communicate a duly certified copy of the notifica29 tion to all the other Powers informing them of the date on 30 which it was received.

31 The denunciation shall only have effect in regard to the 32 notifying Power, and one year after the notification has reached 33 the Netherland Government.

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ARTICLE XCVII.

A register kept by the Netherland Minister for Foreign Affairs 36 shall give the date of the deposit of ratifications effected in 37 virtue of Article XCII, paragraphs 3 and 4, as well as the date

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on which the notifications of adhesion (Article XCIII, paragraph 2) or of denunciation (Article XCVI, paragraph 1) have been received.

Each Contracting Power is entitled to have access to this 5 register and to be supplied with duly certified extracts from it. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present Convention.

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Done at The Hague, the 18th October, 1907, in a single copy, 9 which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherland 10 Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent, 11 through the diplomatic channel, to the Contracting Powers.

RESOLUTION OF RATIFICATION OF THE CONVENTION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES, SIGNED AT THE HAGUE, 1907. (Ex. F, 60th, 1st.)

APRIL 2, 1908.

Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of a convention signed by the delegates of the United States to the Second International Peace Conference, held at The Hague from June sixteenth to October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, subject to the declaration made by the delegates of the United States before signing said convention, namely:

"Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not intruding upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state; nor shall anything contained in the said convention be construed to imply a relinquishment by the United States of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions."

Resolved further, as a part of this act of ratification, That the United States approves this convention with the understanding that recourse to the permanent court for the settlement of differences can be had only by agreement thereto through general or special treaties of arbitration heretofore or hereafter concluded between the parties in dispute; and the United States now exercises the option contained in article fifty-three of said convention, to exclude the formulation of the "compromis" by the permanent court, and hereby excludes from the competence of the permanent court the power to frame the "compromis" required by general or special treaties of arbitration concluded or hereafter to be concluded by the United States, and further expressly declares that the "compromis " required by any treaty of arbitration to which the United States may be a party shall be settled only by agreement between the contracting parties, unless such treaty shall expressly provide otherwise.

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RECOVERY OF CONTRACT DEBTS.

A CONVENTION SIGNED BY THE DELEGATES OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE HELD AT THE HAGUE FROM JUNE 15 TO OCTOBER 18, 1907, RESPECTING THE LIMITATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF FORCE FOR THE RECOVERY OF CONTRACT DEBTS.

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FEBRUARY 27, 1908.-Read; convention read the first time and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and, together with the message and accompanying papers, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.

APRIL 7, 1908.-Ratified.

1 His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia; the 2 President of the United States of America; the President of the 3 Argentine Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King 4 of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary; His Majesty 5 the King of the Belgians; the President of the Republic of 6 Bolivia; the President of the Republic of the United States of 7 Brazil; His Royal Highness the Prince of Bulgaria; the President 8 of the Republic of Chile; His Majesty the Emperor of China; 9 the President of the Republic of Colombia; the Provisional 10 Governor of the Republic of Cuba; His Majesty the King of 11 Denmark; the President of the Dominican Republic; the 12 President of the Republic of Ecuador; His Majesty the King of 13 Spain; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the 14 King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 15 of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; 16 His Majesty the King of the Hellenes; the President of the 17 Republic of Guatemala; the President of the Republic of Haïti; 18 His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of 19 Japan; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, 20 Duke of Nassau; the President of the United States of Mexico; 21 His Royal Highness the Prince of Montenegro; the President 22 of the Republic of Nicaragua; His Majesty the King of Norway!

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